Doctor Who and the Giant Robot

by Terrance Dicks

Book Overview

Doctor Who series, 1974, Doctor #4 Tom Baker's very first episode! A robot breaks into a top-secret govt. facility, stealing plans for a "disintegrator gun." The question is: who, or what, is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0426112792
• ISBN13: 9780426112792
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Universal Publishing & Distributing Corporati
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Bigger than big, stronger than strong - but not Gigantor

This book is Terrance Dicks' adaptation of his own script, and the first story to feature the most popular of the various Doctors, as played by Tom Baker.In many respects the story is a little bit of a throw back to a traditional UNIT story, a bit different in tone for what lies ahead in this incarnation. The Doctor, having regenerated after 'Planet of the Spiders', is keen to resume his wanderings through time and space. His friends, and UNIT medical officer Harry Sullivan, are concerned about his stability, and so consider it fortunate that some high tech robberies are taking place. They get the Doctor involved in the investigations.The story focusses around a British scientific think tank and some inventions of theirs, including (unsurprisingly) a robot, as well as a disintegrator gun (the high tech crimes are the stealing of plans and components). But there is a bigger plan behind the obvious...Terrance Dicks has put a fair amount of effort into making this novelisation good (much as he did with 'Planet of the Spiders', the last third Doctor story), obviously considering this regeneration process worth extra effort to portray.